James W. Speedy, age 30, from Cambridge, Ohio, Guernsey county.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: “Raging Bulls” of Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 261 based at Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina
Date of death: Friday, March 18, 2022
Death details: Among four Marines who died when their MV-22B Osprey crashed near the town of Bodo, Norway.
Source: Jacksonville Daily News, Associated Press
Kyle Robert McKee, age 35, from Painesville, Ohio.
Service era: Afghanistan
Date of death: Thursday, November 12, 2020
Death details: Among five soldiers killed in Egypt when their Black Hawk helicopter crashed from a mechanical malfunction.
Source: ABC News
Thomas Cole Walker, age 22, from Conneaut, Ohio.
Service era: Afghanistan
Date of death: Sunday, October 20, 2019
Death details: Killed with two other soldiers at Fort Stewart when their armored vehicle plummeted from a bridge and landed upside down in the water
Source: Stars and Stripes, azcentral.com, Coastal Courier
Larry Albert Bowers, age 72, from Mansfield, Ohio.
Service era: Vietnam
Children: Two children
School: Clear Fork (1965)
Date of death: Friday, September 6, 2019
Death details: Died from the effects of Agent Orange
Cemetery: Bellville, Ohio
Source: Mansfield Journal News, findagrave.com
Jay Kreischer, age 20, from Stryker, Ohio.
Spouse: Grace Aubrey Kreischer (January 28, 2019) – expecting first child, Callum
Children: Brianne (Jason) Barlow and Rylan Garza
Service era: Afghanistan
Schools: Bryan High (2018)
Military history: 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Date of death: Monday, July 29, 2019
Death details: Died in Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan from wounds sustained in a combat related incident
Cemetery: Evansport Cemetery
Source: Department of Defense, Archbold Buckete, Military Times
Joseph P. Collette from Lancaster, Ohio.
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 242nd Ordnance Battalion, Disposal Group, Fort Carson, Colorado
Date of death: Friday, March 22, 2019
Death details: Died from wounds while engaged in combat operations in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense
Gary Leo Rehm, age 37, from Elyria, Ohio.
Spouse: Erin
Schools: Oberlin High graduate
Date of death: Saturday, June 17, 2017
Death details: reported missing after the USS Fitzgerald collided with a Philippines-based merchant vessel at 2:20 a.m. June 17, 2017 while most of the 300 sailors aboard were sleeping.
Source: Navy, Cleveland.com, USNI News
Cameron H. Thomas from Kettering, Ohio.
Service era: Afghanistan
Date of death: Thursday, April 27, 2017
Death details: Died in Nangarhar, Province from small arms fire while engaged in dismounted operations.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Joseph W. Riley, age 27, from Grove City, Ohio.
Parents: Rodney and Michelle (Ferre) Riley
Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Date of death: Monday, November 24, 2014
Death details: Died in Kabul, Afghanistan of wounds suffered when the enemy attacked his vehicle with a vehicle borne improvised explosive device.
Cemetery: Concord Cemetery
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Yeshabel Villotcarrasco, age 23, from Parma, Ohio.
Service era: Afghanistan
Date of death: Thursday, June 19, 2014
Death details: Suicide aboard USS James E. Williams while the ship was underway in the Red Sea. According to a report on the incident: “She reached our for help on the day she died but was rebuffed in her efforts…She believed she was being singled out because of her gender and her small size.”
Cemetery: Dade Memorial Park, Miami, Florida
Source: Department of Defense, findagrave.com, WTKR, Military Times